Federal Court says yes, but local yokel court in Georgia says the undocumented can vote and you can’t count the ballots for verification.
A Fulton County Superior Court Judge has ruled that county election officials must certify vote counts in the 2024 election even if they suspect voter fraud or errors. Judge Robert McBurney insisted in his order that disputes over voter or election fraud should be settled in court.
This ruling ignores the difficulty dozens of lawsuits have faced challenging the 2024 election. The reality is that, once an election is certified, the bar for challenging alleged fraud becomes almost insurmountably high. Judges have an easy out by ruling that plaintiffs alleging fraud in a certified election lack standing to have their cases heard. Judge McBurney’s order is in direct contrast with a recent Federal District Court judge’s opinion.
American Encore v. Adrian Fontes Says that a county supervisor can hold up certification if fraud is suspected.Now that local yokel has been challenged. Attorneys for the Republican National Committee and Georgia Republican Party appealed the ruling directly to the Georgia Supreme Court, which has the authority to review election contest cases or certain state constitutional challenges without having to wait for the state’s intermediate court to weigh in. The state Supreme Court has the option of refusing the direct appeal.
The local yokel has removed seven of the rules passed by the state elections board.
